Fast Worms · Intronaut

163 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 6:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 9 and 24, and 6 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FAST WORMS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12 and 42 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 9 sections: 26 keep time, 48 are fills, 2 are stops and 83 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-85.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesS9FANMS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fast Worms?

170 BPM, in 7/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fast Worms hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fast Worms?

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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